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Fact sheet · Southeast

Biscayne National Park

Unit code BISC. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.

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States on the system list
Florida
Guide region
Southeast. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
October 18, 1968

Table note: incorporated Biscayne National Monument 1980

Gross area acres
172,971.11

NPS fee acres: 171,376.96. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
25.4697, -80.2183

Containing shoreline polygon: not inside a 1:110,000,000 state polygon. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: October. Mean annual total across complete years: 551,892 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 45,130 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 49,949 mean recreation visitsMarch: 51,200 mean recreation visitsApril: 48,906 mean recreation visitsMay: 57,065 mean recreation visitsJune: 49,002 mean recreation visitsJuly: 57,141 mean recreation visitsAugust: 44,244 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 38,724 mean recreation visitsOctober: 31,187 mean recreation visitsNovember: 37,693 mean recreation visitsDecember: 41,650 mean recreation visitsJFMAMJJASOND
Mean of reported recreation visits by calendar month, 2016–2025. Gold is the lowest mean and rust is the highest. A missing bar was not reported. This is a historic average, not a live crowd count.
Monthly recreation-visit record
MonthMeanLowest yearHighest yearYears in the mean
January45,13027,63879,04110
February49,94930,66391,65510
March51,20011,05276,68510
April48,9062,35864,17210
May57,06522,24979,77910
June49,00232,64665,17310
July57,14128,77070,83010
August44,24434,41652,65210
September38,7246,23056,43410
October31,18717,52644,75710
November37,69316,32059,94810
December41,65020,61670,32610

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Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.